SAP ASE Edge Edition for Small and Medium Businesses
Good
NEWS for Sybase passionate guys. This
might be the sweetest announcement from SAP to cool down your sweat thinking
Sybase era is over. After dropping the name Sybase from its product names last
year, SAP is quietly reshaping its database platform offerings in a better way.
Sybase
Inc. has 2 ASE products; Sybase ASE
Enterprise Edition (EE) and Sybase ASE Small Business Edition (SBE). The Sybase
ASE EE product was and still is the flagship and the most commonly known
edition of Sybase with a high price tag. To offer a Sybase ASE database server
to the SMB market space, Sybase created ASE SBE, limited to 2 CPU sockets and 8
engines on a physical server, at a very low price.
The
server virtualization revolution has dramatically changed the server landscape
and database servers made their transitions to the new world with PaaS, IaaS
and CLOUD. The majority of newly deployed database servers are virtualized, either
on premise or in the cloud. The Sybase ASE EE 15.7 database server enabled
Sybase clients to make the move to the virtual servers with the
introduction of the threaded kernel model. Especially SAP ASE EE 16 continued
the optimization for virtual servers and offers one of the most advanced
database servers in the market along with weel known SAP brand and support.
SAP
has improved upon SAP ASE Small Business Edition (ASE SBE) with the release
of SAP ASE Edge Edition providing small and medium sized
businesses with the same enterprise-level features that are found in SAP ASE
Enterprise Edition. SAP ASE Edge Edition can run on
physical or virtual machines with 4 cores or less. Machines are not
limited to 2 chips as they were for SAP ASE SBE. This gives small
businesses the ability to leverage the benefits of virtualization on today's
more powerful, multi-core platforms.
SAP
ASE Edge Edition
replaces SAP ASE SBE and
includes many options that were not available to SAP ASE SBE
customers. Every license includes:
·
Security
and Directory Services
which provides SSL, LDAP authentication, row-level security, and more to
provide the highest levels of security and protection from un-authorized access
·
Encryption of sensitive
information such as credit card numbers or SSNs that can only be decrypted by
authorized users
·
Intelligent
Partitioning
of data based on its content, which improves performance, shortens maintenance
times, and simplifies operations for aging data
·
Compression which can lower
storage costs and improve I/o performance
·
Warm
standby replication
of ASE Edge data to protect businesses from data loss and accessibility
in the event of a system failure
SAP ASE Edge Edition provides small and
medium sized businesses with enterprise-grade features for enhanced
performance, advanced security, and data availability in the event of hardware
failure. It can be purchased through SAP partners at a low price
point that will fit the budget of small businesses.
The
following matrix shows the comparison between SAP ASE Edge Edition and
Sybase ASE SBE. But pay close attention to the options that are now included
and compare this to other vendors standard offerings.
|
Parameter
|
ASE
Edge Edition
|
ASE
SBE
|
|
Max Engines
|
No
Limit
|
8
|
|
Max Cores OS can use
|
4
|
No
Limit
|
|
Max CPU Chips
|
No
Limit
|
2
|
|
Max Concurrent User
Connections
|
No
Limit
|
256
|
Hope this excites your Zeal and to consider Database
Management Systems in Virtual Environment. Refer to scn.sap for
more info.
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